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Use of Seisis for reset of the spine from illuminated manuscript


Place where the object is located
Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy
Story of the object
This is an image from the illuminated manuscript Codex Laurentianae Med. Graec. Plut. 74.7, folio 200r of the 9th or 10th century AD.
It represents the proposed method of seisis for reset of the thoracic and the lower vertebrae of the spine using a ladder. This is part of the text of Apollonius of Citium De articulis (On joints). Apollonius was a physician of the 1st century AD and in this book he studies the Hippocratic beliefs on the subject.
Unit of the Educational Material connected (2 - 1)
Label
Codex Laurentianae Med. Graec. Plut. 74.7, folio 203v
9th – 10th century AD
The codex was found in the library of the renowned Byzantine doctor Nikitas and is now held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, in Florence Italy.